Ut-Oh - the beans have been spilled! .NET, and version 2 no less. I do some .NET coding for work in VB es C#.
It is not trivial getting your computer setup on this, it is, however free - courtesy of M. Bill Gates, esquire. ;-) This is kind of an elephant gun approach, I assumed some small file that gets stuffed through the serial port from any DOS or Windows PC directly into the K3 memory. Nonetheless, it's a very elegent solution and it opens up the host computer to many other .NET applications and even some programming if you care to do it. I'd suggest backing up the system before and after the update - YMMV... [Elecraft] K3 Firmware upload Lyle Johnson kk7p at wavecable.com Wed Jul 25 17:13:08 EDT 2007 Previous message: [Elecraft] K3 Firmware upload > > The PC interfaces to the K3 also needs an Internet connection. > > Does PC mean Windows, or are other operating systems supported? Which > Windows versions are supported? More specifically, the program which updates the K3 needs access to the updated files. If the computer that is used to update the K3 is also on the Internet, then the process is very simple - the program automatically looks in the right place on the 'net. If not, you have to copy the files from the 'net -- or wherever else they may be found -- to the computer that will be used to update the K3. The *current* version of the update application requires Windows XP with .NET 2.0. This has been the standard distribution of Windows since 2001, and is still an available distribution. .NET 2.0 is available for free from Microsoft via their website and is already loaded on a very large percentage of Windows XP computers already. This was the most expedient way to get the update application written and deployed to the development team and field testers. Support is planned for other Windows versions, as well as other OSes, but right now the engineering effort is going into making the K3 better. However, I doubt there will ever be a version for my Acorn RISC PC running RISCOS 3.70... 73, Lyle KK7P _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
